Tuesday, September 29, 2009

What About The Under-26K-Pound Guys?

Unregistered Carriers on 9/28/2009 - 2033
Unregistered Carriers on 9/29/2009 - 1955

A senior person at an insurance company asked me this morning what states are doing about the under-26,000-pound carriers if they are relying mostly on IRP and IFTA for their UCR registrations. I had to tell them that I don't know. I'd be interested to hear from some of those States about that.

I guess the other piece of that question is what the Feds are doing about them. And I'm amazed each and every day that we - a PSC - have registered literally thousands of carriers who have been driving around for 20 years without anybody telling them they needed USDOT numbers. What's wrong with that picture?

As I write this (noon), we have registered 916 carriers and collected over $81,000 in our own system during September. To that we need to add about 125 carriers that have registered through the Indiana system. That's a heck of a number considering: 1) it's the second September of the registration season (we've batted around!), 2) we haven't run any special mail campaigns this month and 3) we've already registered 17,000+ other guys. What a country! And we're only trailing CA by 911 registrations as of this morning. Hey, I can dream, can't I???

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